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Lovers of Lists and List Makers! This is the Twitter Account of Listology Blog, a blog devoted to lists and list-related topics. https://nitter.cf/t.co/949LsZ9t3a

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Poem of the Day: In Strength Sweetness - poetryfoundation.org/poems/1… -- a lovely list-like poem ...
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Check out our new post: a cabinet of conundrums, puns, dead metaphors, and more! listology.blog/2023/01/26/a-…
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A Cabinet of Conundrums: An 1846 List of Proposed “Curiosities” for the Smithsonian Institution listology.blog/2023/01/26/a-…
A Cabinet of Conundrums: An 1846 List of Proposed “Curiosities” for the Smithsonian Institution

A Cabinet of Conundrums: An 1846 List of Proposed “Curiosities” for the Smithsonian Institution

by Leslie Myrick and Martha Rust In July 1836 the United States Congress was the contingent beneficiary of a $500,000 bequest made by English scientist James Smithson (1765-1829) for the establishm…

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Find a list of ghoulish ingredients in our Halloween "Just" a list post here: listology.blog/2022/10/31/ju…
“Just” a list: Ingredients for a toxic brew

“Just” a list: Ingredients for a toxic brew

Just in time for the annual appearance of children dressed up as ghosts, goblins, wizards, and witches, this “‘Just’ a list” post is from Shakespeare’s Macbeth (Act IV, scene 1), in which the three…

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“Just” a list: Ingredients for a toxic brew listology.blog/2022/10/31/ju…
“Just” a list: Ingredients for a toxic brew

“Just” a list: Ingredients for a toxic brew

Just in time for the annual appearance of children dressed up as ghosts, goblins, wizards, and witches, this “‘Just’ a list” post is from Shakespeare’s Macbeth (Act IV, scene 1), in which the three…

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Box full of author copies just arrived at the door!
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List lovers! We have a new post online - on ships' passengers' lists from two New England gold mining companies in 1849, by the wonderful Leslie Myrick. Read it here: listology.blog/2022/09/18/ev…

“Every Variety of Professions”: Ships’ Passenger Lists from Two New England Gold Mining Companies...

Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection of Early California and Western American Pictorial Material, The Bancroft Library, Berkeley, California by Leslie Myrick In honor of Labor Day this post takes a l…

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“Every Variety of Professions”: Ship’s Passenger Lists from Two New England Gold Mining Companies in 1849 listology.blog/2022/09/18/ev…

“Every Variety of Professions”: Ships’ Passenger Lists from Two New England Gold Mining Companies...

Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection of Early California and Western American Pictorial Material, The Bancroft Library, Berkeley, California by Leslie Myrick In honor of Labor Day this post takes a l…

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For "Time's trans-shifting," another "'Just' a list" post: listology.blog/2022/08/24/ju…
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“Just” a list from Robert Herrick’s Hesperides listology.blog/2022/08/24/ju…
“Just” a list: from Robert Herrick’s Hesperides

“Just” a list: from Robert Herrick’s Hesperides

English poet Robert Herrick (1591-1674) is best known for his single, yet voluminous book of poems, Hesperides (1648), which includes such perennial favorites as “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Ti…

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New blog post! "L'allure de liste: The Look of a List" by the wonderful @altiemae Read it here: listology.blog/2022/06/19/la…
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“Just” a list: Ovid’s gathering of trees listology.blog/2022/04/22/ju…
“Just” a list: Ovid’s gathering of trees

“Just” a list: Ovid’s gathering of trees

This post inaugurates a new Listology series entitled “’Just’ a list.” Each of the posts in this series will offer a list without commentary or analysis, just the list, which will be drawn from (or…

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Lists of Knightly Accolades in the Liber Memorialis Friderici III. Imperatoris listology.blog/2022/02/21/li…

Lists of Knightly Accolades in the Liber Memorialis Friderici III. Imperatoris

by Alicia Lohmann In 1436, shortly after his accession to power as duke, Frederick V, who would later become Emperor Frederik III, decided to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. After his return he…

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A list of books that belonged to the Welles family in the 15th century. How many titles do you recognise? 'In primus a boke in France clakld pokelypse / A boke of knghte hode / A boke of Caunturbere tlase / A boke of Charlman / A boke þe lyfe of our ladys lyfe ...'
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In the wake of the shooting of Daunte Wright on April 11 2021 in Brooklyn Center Minnesota, adding yet another name to a list that should not exist, our hearts are broken, and we think of a list in…

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New post, new lists! Read our newest addition on "Literary Lists: Lists of and in Books": listology.blog/2021/04/04/li…
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This is great! Love it when the kids offer Santa advice: "You must be very careful when you are riding over the ice not to upset yourself and your team..."
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What did children want? Wish lists and more in letters to Santa in the 19th and 21st centuries listology.blog/2020/12/24/wh…
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Dear Santa: It’s Been a Hard Year nytimes.com/2020/12/17/paren… Kids' wish lists!

Dear Santa: It’s Been a Hard Year (Published 2020)

In 23,000 letters addressed to the North Pole, collected through a U.S. Postal Service program, wish lists from children across the nation reflect the strain of this year.

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